This entry is recorded by Julie Maguire, Green Box Board Advisor, Visual Art & Director, Brett Weston Archive
Four Orbits, 2004
Charles O. Perry (1929-2011, Montana)
Bronze
21 feet, 5,000 pounds
Located at Mountain Road Corner
* Studied art and architecture at Yale, influenced by Joseph Albers
* Perry worked as an architect in California* Perry didn’t like the rigidity of architecture, sculpture can stand on its own merit without explanation
* Math very important part of his practice. Invented bricks in the shape of rhombus that don’t require mortar (received a patent for these)
* His most famous work in front of the Air and Space Museum in Washington DC called Continuum, 1976Believing that sculpture must stand on its own merit without need of explanation, Perry’s work has an elegance of form that masks the mathematical complexity of its genesis. Perry’s Four Orbits sculpture is dark bronze, eleven feet tall, and weighs about 5,000 pounds. It is mounted on a ten-foot stainless steel pole.